COLLAPSE in a Sentence
Learn COLLAPSE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
80 example sentences for COLLAPSE, such as:
1. The company is on the edge of collapse.
2. Their economy is teetering on the brink of collapse.
3. 'I believe our civilization is going to collapse,' said Aunt Eva.
4. This action brought the country to the verge of economic collapse.
5. If the foundations of the house aren't stable, collapse is possible.
2. Their economy is teetering on the brink of collapse.
3. 'I believe our civilization is going to collapse,' said Aunt Eva.
4. This action brought the country to the verge of economic collapse.
5. If the foundations of the house aren't stable, collapse is possible.
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Meanings and Examples of COLLAPSE
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collapse
v. collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
v. fall apart
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1 Only most fools won't see it and take advantage of the situation created by the collapse.
2 Mrs. Merriwether felt that the South was heading for a complete moral collapse and frequently said so.
3 When she found him one day standing on his head in Melanie's bed and saw him collapse on her, she slapped him.
4 After the complete moral collapse which had sent her to Atlanta and to Rhett, the appropriation of her sister's betrothed seemed a minor affair and one not to be bothered with at this time.
5 Once, the thought of flinging the truth tauntingly in Melanie's face and seeing the collapse of her fool's paradise had been an intoxicating one, a gesture worth everything she might lose thereby.
6 It spoke much for the depth of Mrs. Trenor's friendship that her voice, in admonishing Miss Bart, took the same note of personal despair as if she had been lamenting the collapse of a house-party.
7 She knew that she read mockery into greetings but she could not control her suspicion, could not rise from her psychic collapse.
8 Her chair was out in the open, exposed to their gaze, and it was a hard-slatted, quivery, slippery church-parlor chair, likely to collapse publicly and without warning.
9 The moment Kennicott had ordered her to bed she had begun to collapse.
10 Emboldened by the collapse of the windmill, the human beings were inventing fresh lies about Animal Farm.
11 'I believe our civilization is going to collapse,' said Aunt Eva.
12 A terrible hollow seemed to menace him somewhere, somehow, a void, and into this void his energy would collapse.
13 If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must collapse.
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14 The collapse had come, as on former occasion, just as I had expected.
15 He lies on the sofa hardly seeming to breathe, and his whole body appears in collapse.
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1 This action brought the country to the verge of economic collapse.
2 Their dreams went up in smoke after the collapse of their travel agency.
3 The wait will not be very long, but your white-haired hair collapse hurt.
4 The government predicates that the market collapse was caused by Asian financial crisis.
5 Ten years of incompetent government had brought about the virtual collapse of the country's economy.
6 Their economy is teetering on the brink of collapse.
7 The company is on the edge of collapse.
8 The collapse of the company had repercussions for the whole industry.
9 If the foundations of the house aren't stable, collapse is possible.
10 It was foreordained that the company would suffer a spectacular collapse.
11 The scenario is the same throughout the West countries, all of whose governments are responding to the collapse in similar ways.
12 The streets of Baghdad are littered with putrefying mounds of rubbish that have been accumulating since the collapse of municipal services in March, with the arrival of coalition forces.
13 The streets of Baghdad are littered with rubbish since the collapse of municipal services in March.
14 People dig or pan for gold or diamonds, risking their lives in shallow mines which frequently collapse.
15 Tokyo was plunged into two "lost" decades of stagnation after it prevented zombie companies from declaring bankruptcy – even blocking petitions from bondholders in the courts - when a property collapse exposed debts many times the value of their businesses.